Study: Law firm external hiring hurting diversity efforts
STANFORD BUSINESS – What they found, as reported in a recent paper published in the book Diversity in Practice, is that white lawyers were significantly more likely than nonwhites to find a new job and black lawyers were the least likely to be rehired.
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DAILY CALIFORNIAN – Wearing a suit on a warm Friday afternoon in the Berkeley Law Library, Shawn Trabanino smiled as he reflected on his first few weeks at the UC Berkeley School of Law.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI – A Miami Law class action expert analyzes Microsoft v. Baker case in inaugural Cert Talk, the law school’s lecture series.
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SEMINOLES.COM – As part of its fall 2016 orientation program, the College of Law added a new service project to introduce the incoming students to the Tallahassee community and the importance of giving back.
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GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE – He said setting the score at 266 rather than 270 was expected to increase the overall passing rate by about 5 percentage points and called it a “modest change.”
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NONDOC – Carpenter and Scott told their stories at the Oklahoma City University School of Law, relaying their emotions and memories to a room of law students and supporters of the Innocence Project.
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BOND BUYER – A lawsuit filed against the state of Michigan on behalf of 14 local municipalities this month seeks to correct what they contend is a miscalculation in state aid that has shortchanged them for two decades.
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IGNATIAN SOLIDARITY NETWORK – Over 120 alumni of Jesuit law schools delivered a letter to Congressional leadership and the offices of Jesuit-educated members of Congress calling for passage of bipartisan criminal justice reform legislation.
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CALIFORNIA COURTS – Administrative Presiding Justice Vance W. Raye announced that the Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, will hear oral argument at UC Davis School of Law.
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UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO – The School of Law is celebrating the success of the most ambitious fundraising campaign in the school’s history, announcing that the seven-year Campaign for UB School of Law has reached its $30 million goal.
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